I know they probably thought this would be super cool and all, but I’m just utterly disgusted by it.
There are full-on transit vehicles that have a smaller footprint and can carry more than double the number of people.
I know they probably thought this would be super cool and all, but I’m just utterly disgusted by it.
There are full-on transit vehicles that have a smaller footprint and can carry more than double the number of people.
I recently thought about “muscle cars” in comparison to normal sports cars. Muscle cars are just heavy and slower cars with bigger motors, arent they?
In the past I found them cool, but arent they pretty dumb?
As a car enthusiast I’m incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool – but I can’t for the life of me tell you why. They’re loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can’t even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.
You’re right, they really are dumb as fuck.
Muscle cars are slower going around a twisty race track than a standard sports cars, but are supposed to be good at going fast in a straight line, think of those desert interstate pictures where the highway stretches straight to the horizon. I don’t think there are many legal outlets for taking advantage of what muscle cars are supposed to do.
I’ve done long trips in a couple of muscle cars, and they weren’t any better for road trips than midsize European cars from the same era.
The only place I can think they had an advantage was a drag strip, and even then only with a bit of modification.
Muscle cars (especially Mustangs, never mind that “pony cars” are arguably different) are also excellent tools for locating light poles and other obstructions in parking lots during autocross events. I know this from firsthand observation of, thankfully, somebody else’s experience.